Collection of essays on the use of Braille
People with visual disabilities
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Author:Pierce, BarbaraSummary: -
Author:Hardy, ThomasSummary:A tragedy set in the barren land of Edgon Heath. Our heroine, Eustacia, is proud, passionate, cruel, fickle, avaricious, and desperate. She burns every life she touches, never able to find the mad love and exotic world she dreams of....
- Author:Leland, AndrewSummary:
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he's...
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Author:Bloor, EdwardSummary:Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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Author:Kleege, GeorginaSummary: -
Author:Joyce, MereSummary:Fourteen-year-old Preston Craft is organizing a film festival for his school's film club. When one of the films goes missing two days before the festival begins, Preston is convinced it was stolen and is determined to get it back. The...
- Author:Michelle Creedy, Mary Ellen Gabias, Holly Hoffman, Kerry Kijewski, Marcia YaleSummary:
Cette étude sur la possibilité d’accroître la présence du braille dans les bibliothèques publiques du Canada, a été commandée en 2018 par le RNSEB; elle a été réalisée...
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Author:Kuusisto, StephenSummary:With this, his first collection of poetry, Stephen Kuusisto (author of the memoir Planet of the Blind ) explores blindness and curiosity, loneliness and the found instruments of continuation. Exploiting the seeming contradiction of...
- Author:Nye, MichaelSummary:
My Heart Is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception is a collection of stunning portraits of blind and visually impaired people taken by photographer Michael Nye. Each image is accompanied by an intimate story told by the subject...
- Author:Michalko, RodSummary:
In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the...
- Author:Funnell, PaulSummary:
In Spite of My Eyes is an inspiring story of a man named Paul Funnell, born with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative disorder of the retina which has rendered him legally blind. From an early age he had an unshakable desire to...
- Author:Michelle Creedy, Holly Hoffman, Kerry Kijewski, Marcia Yale, Mary Ellen GabiasSummary:
This study on improving Braille availability in Canadian public libraries was requested by NNELS in 2018 and written by a group of Canadian writers and researchers...
- Author:Kang, HanSummary:
New York Times Editors' Choice - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian "Both a...
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Author:Little, JeanSummary:Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family - somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her 'Awkward Anna.'...
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Author:Little, JeanSummary:In this sequel to Rescue Pup, Shakespeare, the unusual Seeing Eye dog who understands humans, must win over his new master, a desperately unhappy young man who was recently blinded in an accident.
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Author:Best, LauraSummary:Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She's visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her father was a casualty of the Second World War-and if all that isn't enough, she's being raised by her bootlegging...
- Author:Johnson, Terry LynnSummary:
A riveting adventure about a musher who sets out to prove her impaired vision won't hold her back from competing in a rigorous sled race through the Canadian wilderness. McKenna Barney is trying to hide her worsening eyesight and has...
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Author:Tunstall, Kate E.Summary:Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of theEncyclopedie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and...
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Author:Nolan, VictoriaSummary:At 18 years old, Victoria Nolan found out she was going blind. As her vision became more restricted, so did her independence. Her childhood dream had been to become a teacher, but she had to fight constantly against misconceptions about...
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An own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives. When we think about it, we're not really divided.
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